And there be three or four more men--accused by Bedloe of Godfrey's murder, and will be tried presently." I need not say what a horror it was to me to hear that; for I had had more hope in my heart than I had thought.

But I was collected enough to say something that satisfied him; and, as again he had been drinking, he was not very quick.
"And those three or four ?" I asked.

"Are they Jesuits too ?" "No," said Rumbald, "but there will be another batch presently, I make no doubt." I got rid of him at last; and rode homewards; but it was with a very heavy heart.

Not once yet had the King exercised his prerogative of mercy; and if he yielded at the first, and that against the Jesuits whom he had sworn to protect, was there anything in which he would resist?
My Cousin Dorothy saw in my face as I came in that something was the matter; so I told her the truth.
"May they rest in peace," she said; and blessed herself.
* * * * * From time to time news reached us in this kind of manner.

Though we were not a great distance from London we were in a very solitary place, away from the high-road that ran to Cambridge; and few came our way.